AUGUSTIN DALY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/09/1893 - HFSID 304560
Price: $320.00
AUGUSTIN DALY
The producer informs a woman that he has no roles available for
her.
Autograph Letter signed: "A Daly", 1 page, 5½x8½. No place,
1893 October 9. On letterhead of Day's Theatre (London and New York) to
"Dear Miss Bateman [?], in full: "I shall have nothing to offer
you for the moment. The immediate understudies are all set. Very truly".
American theatrical manager and dramatist Augustin Daly
(1838-1899) is best known as the operator of Daly's Theatre on
Broadway, where he presented noted productions of Shakespearean comedies.
Daly, a drama critic for several New York City newspapers from 1859, made
his debut as a manager with his melodrama, Under the Gaslight, his
first play that was not an adaptation of another work. Daly, who also
adopted plays from French and German, opened his first theater in 1869, and
would reign as the "autocrat of the stage" for some thirty years in both
New York and London. A strict disciplinarian who set high standards of
production for his "company of stars", including John Drew, Clara Morris
and Ada Rehan, Daly was a biographer as well as a playwright. One vertical and
three horizontal folds. Creased. Lightly worn. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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